Mujibnagar is an
upazila
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
(subdistrict) of
Meherpur District
Meherpur ( bn, মেহেরপুর, pron: ''meɦeɾpuɾ'') is the northwestern district of Khulna Division in southwestern Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian state of West Bengal to the west, and by the Bangladeshi districts of Kushtia ...
in
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
History
Mujibnagar
Mujibnagar ( bn, মুজিবনগর), formerly known as Baidyanathtala (Boiddonathtola) and Bhoborpara, is a town in the Mujibnagar Upazila of Bangladesh. The Provisional Government of Bangladesh was formed on 10 April 1971, however, swor ...
was formerly a part of the Meherpur Sadar Upazila, before it was made a separate Upazila on 22 February 2000. The name Mujibnagar commemorates an event in the
history of Bangladesh
Civilisational history of Bangladesh previously known as East Bengal, dates back over four millennia, to the Chalcolithic. The country's early documented history featured successions of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires, vying for region ...
: It is the place where, on 17 April 1971, the first government of the
People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million pe ...
was sworn in, and the place was named Mujibnagar after the name of the Father of the nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengali politi ...
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Geography
Mujibnagar Upazila is bounded by Meherpur Sadar Upazila
Meherpur Sadar ( bn, মেহেরপুর সদর) is an upazila of Meherpur District in the Division of Khulna Division, Khulna, Bangladesh. Meherpur is the smallest district of Bangladesh in the South-western part within the Khulna Division ...
in Meherpur District, on the north, Meherpur Sadar Upazila and Damurhuda Upazila
Damurhuda ( bn, দামুড়হুদা) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh.
Geography
Damurhuda is located at . It has 37,279 households and a total area of 308.11 km2.
Dumurhuda Upazila is bou ...
, the latter in Chuadanga District, on the east, and Tehatta I
Tehatta I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Tehatta subdivision of Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Geography
Tehatta is located at . at Tehatta
Tehatta I CD Block is bounded by Naoda, ...
CD Block, in Nadia District, West Bengal, India, on the south and the west.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Bangladesh census
In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...
, Mujibnagar Upazila had 24,602 households and a population of 99,143, 10.1% of whom lived in urban areas. 8.5% of the population was under the age of 5. The literacy rate (age 7 and over) was 50.5%, compared to the national average of 51.8%.
Administration
Meherpur Sadar Upazila is divided into four union parishad
Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit ...
s: Bagoan, Dariapur, Mahajanpur, and Monakhali. The union parishads are subdivided into 29 mauzas and 33 villages.
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